Tripoli,Nov7: Libya’s coastguard said it rescued 115 migrants today who had been aboard a rubber boat that broke down off Tripoli, and that one migrant had drowned. The migrants “were on a rubber boat that broke down northwest of Khoms,” some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the capital yesterday, navy spokesman Colonel Ayoub Qassem told AFP. The Libyan Red Crescent said yesterday that in the past week it had retrieved the bodies of 40 migrants who had drowned attempting to reach Europe. The same day, 10 migrants’ bodies were recovered from a rubber boat and more than 2,200 people were rescued at sea, according to the Italian Coast Guard. On Friday, 1200 migrants were rescued in eight operations.

Source: Libya Today November 07, 2016 10:48 UTC